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  1. Math

    College Football, Rankings, and Wandering Monkeys

    The system for ranking college football teams to see who plays for the national championship has flaws.

    By Ivars Peterson
  2. Humans

    From the September 1, 1934, issue

    A new German zeppelin under construction, fossils of giant pigs, and word recognition in dogs.

    By Science News
  3. Humans

    A Lewis Carroll Scrapbook

    Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a lecturer in mathematics at the University of Oxford, is better known as Lewis Carroll, author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and other works. A scrapbook kept by Dodgson is now available online, via the Library of Congress. It contains a variety of items, including newspaper clippings, illustrations, and photographs.